08/02/12: Al Jazeera reports Spanish police have arrested three suspected members of al-Qaeda in the southern province of Cadiz. Spanish radio station Cadena Ser on Thursday cited police sources that said the suspects were two Chechens and a Turk and possessed explosives and poison when they were arrested. In a news conference, Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said there was a “clear indication that those arrested could have been planning an attack in Spain or in Europe.” Two of the suspects were travelling in a bus towards France when they were arrested in a lay-by at Valdepenas by a police special operations group. The Turkish man was reportedly arrested in a flat near La Linea de la Concepion where the group was storing explosives.

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